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Tag Archives: meadowlarks

Birds are moving north

February 21, 2009by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

When I was a child, the indisputable sign of spring was my father triumphantly announcing, “I saw a robin today!” We lived in the Great Lakes area, west of Toledo, Ohio, where the damp cold of winter seeped into your bones and clouds hung low and gray Read More…

Tags: birding, birds, birdwatching, climate change, global warming, meadowlarks, robins
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  • ►2016
    • ►June
      • An ending...and a beginning
  • ►2015
    • ►December
      • Finding gratitude before breakfast
    • ►June
      • Listening to Nature as Source
    • ►May
      • 20 million cheatgrass seeds
    • ►March
      • It's all a gift
    • ►January
      • Healing from Bell's palsy
  • ►2014
    • ►December
      • With tender hands: A solstice musing
      • Living with Bell's palsy
    • ►November
      • Thanksgiving and peace
    • ►August
      • Who's in the native garden?
    • ►July
      • A settling torch
    • ►June
      • Farmer in the yard
    • ►May
      • The underworld is alive!
    • ►March
      • What's the end of this story?
    • ►February
      • Savory butterfly snack
    • ►January
      • It's all about relationship
      • What did water say?
      • Happy New Year from New Mexico!
  • ►2013
    • ►October
      • A healthy environment is a human right
    • ►September
      • NOAA and the flood
    • ►August
      • Kissed by a Fox wins a WILLA Award!
    • ►July
      • Wordless Wednesday: Crazy beautiful
      • Does beetle kill contribute to forest fires?
      • News about Kissed by a Fox
    • ►June
      • A year after forest fire
      • In honor of the bees
      • Calypso secrets
    • ►May
      • Urban birder: Finding a wider circle of friends
      • Was my deep grandmother a cave painter?
    • ►March
      • Seeking ancestors
      • ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist
    • ►February
      • A park in the sky
    • ►January
      • Oaks against the sky
      • Whistling in the wind
  • ►2012
    • ►December
      • 12 ways to give back to the Earth
      • Can we imagine a better future? On dystopias and hope
      • Colorado Gives--today!
    • ►November
      • Solar for the 75%
      • The law of the ground is sharing
      • Big bluestem in a dry year
      • Happy Holy $hit Day!
      • Brother Francis and Brother Mitt
    • ►October
      • The power of we, multiplied
      • Follow the image
    • ►September
      • The TNB self-interview
      • Welcome to my new website!
      • To be generous: Yoga with Wendy Bramlett
    • ►August
      • Across a birding threshold
      • Seven weeks after the Flagstaff Fire
      • Read an excerpt from the book
      • Exciting August
    • ►July
      • Nestlings
      • Publisher's Weekly reviews Kissed by a Fox
      • Birding half a world away in the Rio Botanical Gardens
    • ►June
      • A day at the Rio Earth Summit
      • Making waves at Rio
      • The people say, "It's time to end handouts to big oil!"
      • Preparing for the Rio Earth Summit
      • Why do the rights of nature matter?
    • ►May
      • Emerging calypsos
      • A glorious--and scary--spring
    • ►April
      • Am I going to Rio+20?
      • Why do we need a local bill of rights?
    • ►March
      • Early pasqueflower
      • Rolling back democracy
      • It's a democracy problem
      • This book has a cover!
    • ►February
      • Journey toward a book title
      • Snow offerings
      • What are we teaching kids on Groundhog Day?
  • ►2011
    • ►December
      • Frost on snow
      • Our creative universe
      • Now that the book is done
    • ►November
      • Slime mold: the new urban planner?
    • ►October
      • Wordless Wednesday: View from my windows, first snow 2011
      • Why I support Occupy Wall Street
      • Wordless Wednesday: The native garden in October
      • Slow money gathering coming up
      • Aspenfest
    • ►September
      • For the birds
      • Canoeing on the Colorado River
    • ►August
      • Wordless Wednesday: Above the treeline at Rocky Mountain National Park
    • ►July
      • John Muir and the calypsos
      • Wordless Wednesday: Harebell
      • Contemplate a columbine
      • When horsetail ruled
      • The Ceran St. Vrain Trail
    • ►June
      • Loss and gain and Angel DeLuna
      • Calypso orchids at last!
      • Ice Age hike
      • Favorite Friday: Even bindweed brings gifts
      • This spring at Chautauqua
      • Favorite Friday: Words and trees
    • ►May
      • Veggie revelations
      • Wordless Wednesday: Thumb Butte
      • Announcing: A book contract!
      • Early spring on Goshawk Ridge
    • ►April
      • David Orr on confronting climate collapse
    • ►March
      • On the walking mountain
      • Breaking the climate silence
      • I am an ecosystem
    • ►February
      • The genius of the grass
      • Valuing the spaceship we've got
    • ►January
      • The sustainable food buzz
      • On angel food cake and Earth care
  • ►2010
    • ►December
      • COP16 saves UN process--at what cost?
    • ►November
      • The rights of nature, from Cochabamba to Cancún
      • Kiss the ground
      • A splendor of native grasses
    • ►October
      • More about online comments from ONA10
      • The climate of online comments
      • How does climate change affect Colorado's water?
      • In memory of a ponderosa pine friend
      • Kindness--an animal instinct
    • ►September
      • Floating down the river
      • Wolves and dominance: The myth of the alpha dog
    • ►August
      • What about that mosque at Ground Zero?
      • Staying in touch
    • ►July
      • Exploring the Anne U. White Trail
      • That's my town
      • 10 ways to give back to the Earth
    • ►June
      • Even bindweed brings gifts
      • On the way to Goshawk Ridge
      • The native garden in June
    • ►May
      • Mud love
      • Where science and religion meet: The natural world
    • ►April
      • Thumb Butte
      • Discovering horses
      • Pasqueflower 2010
      • Words and wildflowers
      • Voyeur--in a good way
    • ►March
      • Spring snows
      • Words and trees
      • Radicalized by a creek
      • A peace of eagles
    • ►February
      • Beside the White River
      • Reciprocity
    • ►January
      • Granite Dells
      • Snow in Prescott
      • Do GMOs reduce pesticide use?
      • GMO corn causes organ damage in mammals
      • Do animals tell stories?
      • Scenes from a writing weekend
  • ►2009
    • ►December
      • On the blue--and green--religion of Avatar
      • Where I come from, they know how to sing
      • Teaching about climate change
      • An early winter gift
      • Toward an Earthwise economy, part 2: Happy Planet Index
      • 100th post: Celebration time!
    • ►November
      • Nature in cities
      • Happy 150th to Darwin's Origin of Species
      • From a contemplative weekend
      • We, the Earth: Ecological crisis as spiritual practice
      • Farms and cars polluting Rocky Mountain lakes
      • Animals and awe at Gobekli Tepe
    • ►October
      • Mystical experiences—good for biology
      • Climate Action Day 2009
      • Now they're gone
      • Holy shit!
      • Women, farming, and climate change
      • Biomimicry: "We are surrounded by genius"
      • Autumn one week later
    • ►September
      • Does autumn get any better than this?
      • Aspen gold
      • Welcome, Nature Blog Network!
      • Trusting the senses
      • Visiting old friends in the Bay Area
      • "From future threat to present emergency": Boulder panel on climate change
      • On Marshall Mesa
    • ►August
      • The Berlin Wall for wildlife
      • Cicadas, oh, my!
      • Connecting with a cottonwood
      • What every student should know about the environment
      • "Necessity is the mother of invention" for clever rooks
      • Music magic with Bobby McFerrin
      • What the Dutch are doing
    • ►July
      • Animism in the academy
      • Where is the passion?
      • Book penance at the Amsterdam Public Library
      • Tomorrow I head to Amsterdam
      • On Green Mountain
      • What we're doing to the whales
      • Visiting an Amish farmstead
    • ►June
      • Gearing up for Amsterdam
      • Brownies to die for
      • A whole lot of giggling goin' on
      • Above Wonderland Lake
      • Writing that walloped me
      • The great work of Thomas Berry
    • ►May
      • A cloudy-day hike at Chautauqua
      • Hop on the Berry Go Round
      • In defense of food
      • A red-letter, um, rose-breasted day
      • A sweet crib
      • Oodles of birders
      • Deliver me in a black-winged bird: Meeting an eagle
      • Tweets from a talk by Susan Solomon
      • My first blog carnival: What fun!
      • Pasqueflower's risky business
      • Whiplash springs
    • ►April
      • Toward an Earthwise economy, part 1: Ecological economics
      • Rats giggle too
      • Being known by a birch tree
      • Finding tongues in trees
      • String theory for mere mortals
      • Smoking kills them too
      • My cousin, the fungus
      • A spirituality of THIS world
      • Finding what you don't expect: A runaway universe
      • Not finding what you expect
      • 10 things to love about dirt
      • Birds were here first
      • Pearly finds a home
    • ►March
      • 8 reasons to go native in your yard
      • Priorities pay off
      • Good news for creeks
      • 100 women saving the planet
      • Another sign of (political) spring
      • Hyacinths to feed the soul: Celebrating Sa'di
      • What your soft animal body loves
      • Paradigms, idols, and the mind in matter
      • Dolphin bubbles
      • What the world needs now
      • Write your heart out
      • Earth is the new bottom line
      • Air money—or bringing the financial crisis down to Earth
      • Sunday birding notes
      • 10 reasons to shlep your laundry outdoors to dry
      • Stuff, sustainability, and students--facts or bias?
      • Sundays with eagles
    • ►February
      • Insulated from nature
      • "Epistemological modesty" means it takes a village
      • Birds are moving north
      • When you don't want your sister reading it...
      • Happy-baby yoga
      • Great Backyard Bird Count 2009
      • Love song from Walt Whitman
      • House finch fooler
      • Compassion footprint
      • Animism 101
      • 10 things to love about rocks
      • Teaching kids about nature
      • Unprecedented
    • ►January
      • Writing and connection
      • My latest hero, an Ottawa boy saving the lives of birds
      • Nature, God, and styrofoam
      • The president and the common good

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